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The inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the country may have cost him the support of pan-Yoruba group Afenifere for a second term in 2019.                     Spokesman of the group Yinka Odumakin said this recently, adding that the group will only back a candidate that would restructure the country for the general elections in 2019. Odumakin told a national daily that, “We wanted the country to be restructured so that we can start on a fresh slate, the government that spent three years without carrying out restructuring, I doubt if it will do so before next year’s election. “Therefore, in the next election, we are going to bring in a government that will restructure Nigeria on the path of productivity. “We need to try other hands in order to move the country forward and stop the killings going on across the country at the moment.” He added that, “We are so tired of their rhetorics, and their words mean nothing, and they say anything in order to get votes.

             President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Shettima Yerima, has said that President Muhammdu Buhari, who has declared his interest to run for a second term, will be humiliated at the poll. Buhari has declared to recontest in 2019, what is your reaction to this? We have expected this and we have already prepared for him. We are ensuring that every Nigerian youth obtains his or her voter’s card. We will ensure that we secure our votes and our votes count. We didn’t expect him to say that he was not going to contest. This is democracy and no one can deny him the right to contest. He had admitted that he ought to have been doing something better than he is doing, but age and ill health have actually overtaken a lot of things in him. So, we were thinking that, as a man with integrity; a man who had said he would only go for one term, should understand that he would be under pressure put on him by his cabinet members and governors, who have failed and

A former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh has explained why he asked Nigerians to stone the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government if he failed to perform.                      Momoh had during the build up to the 2015 general elections called on Nigerians to stone the APC government if they don’t leave up to expectations. Speaking with The Sun, the former minister said Nigerians were already stoning the president despite his monumental achievements. He said, “We are in a democracy. As Minister of Information, I gave Nigerians information; one, to satisfy your need for information; secondly, to give you the information to do what you like to do with it. “So, people who are saying that APC has done nothing have a right through the information they have to achieve the aims they want, but that does not reduce from the fact that objectively, APC has done something. “Whatever happens, I said stone us if we don’t perform, but some people are stoning us, not that we did